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Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
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I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.
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Her hair is ridiculous, I said. I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
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That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.
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The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
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And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
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Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
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She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
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I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
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Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
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I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
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The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.
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